Parenting Quotes · Page 399

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

— Maurice Sendak

The Republican Party is the party of families, parents, and hardworking Americans.

— Katie Britt

Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She's modern. She's a mother, a grandmother, a leader.

— Karen Katz

She's a serial kisser. I think her parents are French.

— C.C. Hunter

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope

James is made to be a father. He'll be a brilliant dad.

— Chloe Madeley

My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on television.

— Conchata Ferrell

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

— Lillian Hellman

“And then I turn away from them all, away from my father, away from the sodden remains of my family, to Mara.”

— Michelle Hodkin

Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how…

— James Cromwell

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children… A daughter continues to identify with the…

— Nancy Chodorow

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out…

— Judith Martin

I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had…

— Nadia Bjorlin

My parents tried to sell me. I was looking for a way to share my feelings, so I started to rap to…

— Sonita Alizadeh

“I think good advice for a father to give to his only son would be, "Don't make the same mistake I made…

— Jarod Kintz

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years…

— Chris Eubank Jr

“She was married now, and suddenly she understood what it was her mother had been trying so hard to tell her on…

— Julia Quinn

“Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well… Avoiding the possibility of failure means…

— Lisa Coyne

A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be…

— Carole Bouquet

“All my parents wanted was the open road and a VW camper van. That was enough escape for them. The ocean, the…

— Naomi Klein

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go…

— Jacques Pepin

“All of us have the potential to be an Absalom, and all of us have the potential to be a David. Absalom…

— Bob Sorge

“The Pranksters were now out among them, and it was exhilarating--look at the mothers staring!--and there was going to be holy terror…

— Tom Wolfe

“… when Michel came home from school, for example, and everything was as it should be. My own voice, above all, asking…

— Herman Koch

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

— Amber Tamblyn

Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.

— Rahul Dev

My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.

— Anita Dobson

“A parent's love is unconditional. A parent's satisfaction comes with caveats.”

— Ron Fournier

A parent is there to help you all you life like no one else will.

— Aaliyah (K

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

— J. J. Abrams

“She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.”

— Ida Hattemer-Higgins

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

— Michel'le

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

— Bernard Lagat

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blueeyes or small feet.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I used to go with my father to practice on the village pitch and with my friends.

— Gerard Deulofeu

“Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond.”

— Fela Durotoye

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

— Bill Cosby

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

— Oswald Chambers